june gloom on 21/10/2012 at 21:18
Oh. OH.
Interest levels rising.
Volitions Advocate on 22/10/2012 at 04:28
Bad ass.. I guess I should finally get around to playing BioShock 2.
henke on 22/10/2012 at 05:34
Awesome tune! Blues rock with a touch of gospel. Perfect. :D
The game looks fun as well, and now is probably the perfect time to start advertising it. People have just finished Dishonored and want more steampunk awesomeness.
Jason Moyer on 22/10/2012 at 11:30
After the unscripted greatness of 2K Marin's BioShock 2, it's almost disappointing to have Irrational doing the next game, now that they're in their "series of scripted encounters with some heavy-handed narrative and shooting inbetween" phase.
demagogue on 22/10/2012 at 12:23
That's what I've taken away from the media they've released also, not to mention by their own admission... It looks awfully scripted for a game. That's cool for an adventure game*, but for an open world game it's kind of ... reminding me that there's a game maker there just waiting for me to go this way. The gameplay & environment looks badass enough though. I was interested in coop fighting with an NPC that's apparently a big part of it.
* Just watched the trailers for
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZYkj0glnqs) The Last of Us too and while it looks about as scripted as a game can get, it doesn't seem so bad when that's the whole point of the genre, and you're in such a great environment with what looks like a pretty solid story going.
Melan on 22/10/2012 at 14:32
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
After the unscripted greatness of 2K Marin's BioShock 2, it's almost disappointing to have Irrational doing the next game, now that they're in their "series of scripted encounters with some heavy-handed narrative and shooting inbetween" phase.
This is what I'm also getting from these trailers they keep releasing. Part of me says, ''that's an interesting setting'', but then I remind myself this is promising to be the handholding of the HL2 episodes taken to a whole new level, where you will likely have no meaningful choices to make in either direction or pacing (or else you could break the Awesome Cinematic Experience they have designed for you). And if I'm already reduced to a spectator, more or less, that makes me want to watch a playthrough on Youtube instead of shelling out money for the game.:tsktsk:
Angel Dust on 22/10/2012 at 19:35
I would totally be down for a scripted shooter in a location like that if it was anyone other than Irrational developing it because
a) they've got in in them to do much more than that
b) they're simply not very good at making shooters. They lack that 'oomph' that good shooters have.
Maybe there is more to it and maybe they've got better at the 'shooty' part but for now I'm sceptical.
ZylonBane on 22/10/2012 at 20:19
I anticipate more of what Bioshock was-- a cynical lowest-common-denominator conglomeration of what has been calculated to sell to console gamers, marketing-friendly character designs, barely-adequate actual gameplay, and a novel but ultimately irrelevant premise troweled on top to give the reviewers something to validate their choice of profession.
gunsmoke on 22/10/2012 at 20:37
So remind me again why scripted shooters have no place in gaming? They cannot all be open-ended, nor should they be imho.
